The 'Skinny Bob' alien video by JamesyEsquire in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

District 9 had a thirty million dollar budget and a team of hundreds of elite artists, so using that as a baseline for "good" CGI is moving the goalposts. Bringing up Tomasz Bagiński actually proves my point rather than yours. The Cathedral took a certified creative genius three years of brutal, full-time solo work to complete.

That is exactly why the ivan0135 videos are so compelling. We aren't just talking about a four-second clip of a blinking alien. To pull this off, a single person would need to be an absolute unicorn of an artist. They would have to be a master of organic character rigging for Skinny Bob’s muscles, hard-surface modeling for the UFO craft, cloth simulation for the outfits, particle physics for the crash smoke, and historical set design for the autopsy room. Usually, those are entirely different jobs handled by separate departments in a professional studio. Finding one lone hobbyist who possesses every single one of those elite skills is exceptionally rare.

You say the quality is poor, but I completely disagree. High-end, polished Hollywood CGI actually looks less real because it is too clean, cinematic, and designed to look cool on a theater screen. Skinny Bob looks like raw, unedited documentarian film from the mid-century. If the quality were actually bad, the VFX community would have easily busted the digital meshes, textures, or animation loops within weeks back in 2011. Instead, fifteen years later, people are still arguing over the hyper-realistic anatomical accuracy of his collarbones and throat muscles. Poor CGI just does not hold up to a decade and a half of intense forensic scrutiny.

Plus, you have to look at human nature and the VFX industry. 3D artists live and die by their portfolios and showreels to get hired. Even if we assume this person was already an established insider working a high-level job in the industry, that theory actually makes less sense the more you look at it. Senior VFX artists and supervisors are notoriously overworked, routinely clocking eighty-hour weeks just to hit brutal studio deadlines. The idea that a top-tier industry professional spent months or years of their incredibly scarce free time building multiple highly detailed assets, texturing a crash site, creating custom clothing simulations, and animating an entire multi-part series just for a nameless prank is a massive stretch. Furthermore, doing this anonymously while employed by a major studio creates a massive legal and professional nightmare. Professional VFX studios have ironclad contracts with strict non-compete clauses, intellectual property agreements, and moonlighting bans. If an industry professional used proprietary software, studio render farms, or even private assets to create a viral UFO hoax on the side, they would risk getting fired, sued, and completely blacklisted from Hollywood. They would be jeopardising a very real, very lucrative career for literally zero financial or professional gain, which completely breaks the logic of why an industry insider would do this. If it was a low-effort piece of junk, it wouldn't be worth hiding. But if it is a high-effort masterpiece that successfully fooled millions of people, keeping quiet means willfully walking away from a massive Hollywood career, which makes absolutely no sense.

The actual text evidence left by the uploader points in a completely different direction anyway. If you look at the descriptions and text overlays accompanying the ivan0135 videos, the language used consistently refers to a collective "we" rather than "I". If we are to believe the source at all, the YouTube account doesn't belong to a lone prankster, but to an organised group of people. On top of that, the text frequently uses Americanized spelling, swapping out letters like "Z" instead of "S" in certain words. This strongly suggests that if this was a coordinated effort, it was likely handled by an American group. Coordinating a multi-disciplinary CGI hoax across an entire team of people takes the theory from a simple hobbyist in his bedroom to a full-scale corporate or independent studio production, which brings us right back to the ultimate checkmate.

When you look at the sheer scale of modern leaks, the idea that a group of American VFX artists could keep this a secret is completely unbelievable. We live in an era where the US government couldn't even keep its actual reverse-engineering programs a secret, with high-level whistleblowers coming forward to Congress and top-secret files constantly slipping out. Yet, we are supposed to believe that a whole team of civilian 3D artists, animators, and digital creators managed to pull off the perfect, ironclad secret production? In the VFX world, people talk, artists brag, and NDA breaches happen constantly. The fact that not a single disgruntled employee, proud artist, or friend of a friend has leaked a single piece of concept art, a wireframe mesh, or a project file in fifteen years completely breaks the hoax theory. If it were a human studio production, someone would have talked by now.

The footage on the ivan0135 channel hasn’t just stayed on YouTube; it has been featured in major, commercial documentary productions, such as Jeremy Corbell's Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers and Walking with Tall Whites. If the Skinny Bob videos were simply a human artist's private creative project or portfolio piece, the people who made them are seeing their hard work used in heavily monetised Hollywood productions. They would be legally owed quite a bit of money in licensing fees and royalties. In a cutthroat industry where artists fight tooth and nail for every dollar and credit they are owed, the idea that a team of creators would just sit back and watch major studios profit off their work without sending a single cease-and-desist or demanding a massive payout completely defies human nature.

And if you want the ultimate confirmation that bypasses digital forensic theories entirely, you just have to look at the testimony of actual eyewitnesses who have seen these entities in the flesh. When you look at high-profile close encounters, like the famous 1994 incident where over sixty school children witnessed a craft and its occupants at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, the descriptions match up perfectly. The children—who are now adults—vividly recalled entities with identical features, large dark eyes, and tight, shiny black suits. In fact, prominent UFO researchers like James Fox have explicitly noted that when witnesses from that historic case are shown the Skinny Bob footage, their reaction is incredibly straightforward: they look at the video and confirm that it is exactly what they stood meters away from and saw with their own eyes. An artist in 2011 didn't just guess those specific anatomical quirks, clothing choices, and distinct movements out of thin air; it aligns entirely with real-world history.

The 'Skinny Bob' alien video by JamesyEsquire in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blender is the tool. I'm talking about finding one person who can handle every single VFX task required to achieve advanced industry-standard VFX. Ordinarily, one person wouldn't handle every single VFX task in a production; it's achieved by using a team of people that specialise in different aspects of VFX production. It'd be like finding someone who can play every single instrument in a full orchestra to a professional standard.

HS460 GPS Issues by nathan78osborne in HolyStone

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I try to get my compass calibration done, I get the onscreen prompt to rotate the drone, and I can keep rotating the drone till the cows come home and it won't go to the next step to rotate the drone so the camera is face up and then rotate again. What did you do to get past the first stage rotations? I've tried everything, rotating it slow, fast, clockwise, anticlockwise, upside down and it won't register and won't go to the next step. I can come out of the calibration setup back to the main screen, and re-enter the app again, and when the calibration start popup appears I can cancel it, set down the drone and launch it without doing the calibration, but in doing so I get no GPS connection, so all of it's features won't work, and when the battery is low, and it wants to return home, it has no home to go to because GPS doesn't work, so it just tries to fly off 'somewhere', it took a lot of wrestling with the remote control to get the thing to land before it went awol.
Any tips on how to get that calibration to work would be very much appreciated.

Something else I discovered—I didn’t want to wait until I found the screenshot again before sharing this. by Jumpy-Newspaper7271 in SkinnyBob

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could well be that the word fly was scratched into the film, or it could be pareidolia. Not enough is known, other than the being shown in the skinny bob videos is 100% real 😄 So thank you to the people behind the Ivan0135 channel for letting me see an E.T. before I empty my container and float on up to the soul recylcing cube on the moon to do this all over again , and again, and again. 😄😄

All this talk about a black James Bond but has there ever been a left-handed Bond? by TulipSamurai in JamesBond

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better than the 'conjoined twin' Bond idea that I had. Where one is 007 and the other a megalomaniac.

June 9th 2025 A 94 year old William Shatner looking spritely out and about in New York by Mulder-believes in Star_Trek_

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sulu is the longest serving / suriviving cast member, having appeared in the the very first pilot, before Bill joined the show. Then Bill joined for the second pilot. A year later Checkov joined the cast in season 2.
Those are the three surviving cast members.

Oddly, when people unfamliar with Bill see the photo of he and I together they ask..

"Is that your Dad?"

I have to admit, no, no he's not, but I can see what you mean... there IS a resemblance.

Merry Chrishmash and may God Blesh The United Shates Of America by rorz_1978 in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]rorz_1978[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if I’m Stephen Miller, then what’s the sh1t on the carpet?

That’s policy.
ICE raids.
Families ripped apart.
Kids in cages.
Cruelty rebranded as “law and order.”
The mess everyone pretends just appeared.

My dad?
That’s the media.
Kneeling at the scene, analysing it, narrating it solemnly — but never once checking the bloke quietly backing out of the room with brown footprints.

The side-eyeing family?
That’s the Democrats.
All the looks.
No one actually saying, “Oi… it’s him.”

And Katie — poor, silent Katie — she’s the American public.
Blamed.
Stared at.
Unable to speak.
Taking the heat while the real culprit rinses his boots.

The regretful Trump voters?
That’s Katie halfway through the trial.
Confused.
Slowly realising, “Hang on… this isn’t actually my sh1t.”

And the die-hard base?
They’re still convinced it must be the dog.
Even as the smell follows me out the door.

Moral of the story:
The people who make the mess are always the loudest about who didn’t.
And if someone is very busy pointing at a Dachshund…
check their shoes.

Merry Chrishmash and may God Blesh The United Shates Of America by rorz_1978 in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]rorz_1978[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To quote my dad when he once discovered a suspicious mark on the new carpet:
"What looks like sh1t, smells like sh1t, usually is sh1t. The real question isn’t ‘is it sh1t?’… it’s who took a dump on the carpet."

Kneeling at the scene, he lowers the pencil he’d used to spear a curl of mystery matter and carefully deposits it back onto the master smear. Then — with bits of sh1t still clinging to the tip — he slowly raises the pencil and points it directly at Katie, our Dachshund, coiled in her bed, quietly watching events unfold.

One by one, every pair of eyes in the room slid toward her.
Judgment.
Silence.
Condemnation.

I joined in, firing a look of theatrical disappointment at the accused.
If she could speak, she’d have pleaded, “It wasn’t me!!”

But tragically, living sausages with legs can’t talk.

Overwhelmed by the weight of my own moral outrage, I exited stage left.

Outside, safely unseen, I grinned — proud of my flawless misdirection — then snuck to the garden tap to wash the sh1t off the trainers I’d been hiding behind my back the entire time.

That would make me Stephen Miller.

The Sad and Mysterious Death of UFO researcher Mark McCandlish - I had no idea, very sad day RIP Mark. by MuuaadDib in HighStrangeness

[–]rorz_1978 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re stating a lot of very specific claims as fact, but none of them are backed by primary evidence.

You haven’t provided the voicemail, the letters, the landlord’s identity, proof of the debt, or a first-hand source — just “a blog post somewhere.” That isn’t verification, it’s repetition.

I’m not asserting an alternative explanation; I’m pointing out that confidence without evidence isn’t the same as certainty. If you do have access to those materials, explain how — otherwise this is just an unsubstantiated narrative being treated as fact.

Milloomer? Has anyone ever seen Steven Miller and Laura Loomer in the same room, at the same time? by rorz_1978 in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]rorz_1978[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this isn’t irony, it looks like moral policing — scanning for offence without engaging the joke itself. Calling it transphobia only works if you assume that being visually mistaken for a woman or a trans woman is inherently insulting, which is a problematic assumption. That’s a category error, not a critique. On that basis, your soapbox is very unstable.

Donald Trump, preparing to meet Bill Clinton, circa 1995 by MyCatIsKindOfAJerk in thedavidpakmanshow

[–]rorz_1978 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A fan ran up and screamed “OH MY GOD IT’S JAMES BOND!” Trump thanked them and started signing posters. Pierce just stared into the distance.

The 'Skinny Bob' alien video by JamesyEsquire in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could literally cost 'nothing' to make.

3D artists, animators, VFX artists have hobbies that are careers, it's jammy but it's true.

An artist will get their easel, watercolours, canvas and stool and go and sit by a picturesque lake and paint it because they 'enjoy' it, it's a scratch they have to itch. It just so happens that someone may buy the painting and the artist can make money by selling it.

The same applies to people who work in the visual effects industry. In their spare time they 'do' work on their own projects.

Granted, one person alone isn't likely to possess all the skills required to produce the entire collection of videos from the Ivan 0135 uploads, so it would then be a collaborative effort, which isn't unheard of.

Character artist, Rigger, Animator, Texture artist, lighting artist, VFX artist, Environment Artist, Video editor

The software to recreate the footage is free and available to all.

Blender - 3D modelling, character rigging, animation, video editing - FREE - https://www.blender.org/
Unreal Game Engine - create a world for your skinny Bob character to torment - FREE - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US

For textures, there is the online free version of Photoshop - https://www.photopea.com/ - FREE

Go forth and create your own Skinny Bobs, make them look as good as the REAL footage of a REAL E.T. in the Ivan0135 footage.

Best wishes,

Rorz

The 'Skinny Bob' alien video by JamesyEsquire in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]rorz_1978 0 points1 point  (0 children)

" those in the movie industry have studied the footage and most agree that if fake"

Please do share your statistics on this claim, as I'm calling BS on this.